[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 122, Issue 19

[Rachael Patterson]

Sad news indeed. Al Muth was a valuable, knowledgeable & generous
genealogist. He will be missed. ~ Rachael


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:00 PM, <ger-poland-volhynia-request at sggee.org>wrote:

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>    1. Re: Albert Muth - Obituary (Jack Milner)
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> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:53:34 -0600
> From: Jack Milner <wjmilner at shaw.ca>
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary
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> /*" When an older person dies, it is like a library burning."*/
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> Alex Haley
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> On 2013-07-17 6:44 PM, Jerry Frank wrote:
> > I was stunned when I came home from work to hear this news.  It is my
> sad duty to report that Albert (Al) Muth passed away from pulmonary
> embolism (blood clots) at his home, Sunday July 15.  A brief obituary can
> be found on this site http://www.mccabefuneralhome.com/Publishsite/
> >
> > Al was only 55 but he crammed a whole lot of genealogical research into
> those few years.  I was first introduced to him in the mid 1990s when he
> did some genealogical research for Wandering Volhynians magazine.  It was
> later in the founding years of SGGEE that he became extremely active
> through his extraction of literally hundreds of thousands of names from
> Russian Poland Lutheran records.  SGGEE, its members, and those who have
> passed this way as friends owe him a huge debt for helping us to do our
> research.  He did this through his general extractions, through his
> historical and language research and especially through personal messages
> in direct correspondence with us.  He did not keep his research to himself
> but shared it with us and many others around the world.  He seldom did the
> specific family research for us but allowed us to make our own discoveries
> by pointing us to people, places, and records.
> >
> > As several people have already indicated in private messages I received,
> Al is irreplaceable and will be sorely missed.  Please join us in extending
> our prayers and thoughts of condolences to his surviving family.
> >
> >
> > Jerry Frank
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> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:42:21 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Paul Rakow <paul.edward.luther.rakow at desy.de>
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary
> Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1307182033180.19415 at pub3.ifh.de>
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>      Like everyone else, I was very shocked to hear this sudden
>   and unexpected news. Al really had done an amazing amount of
>   indexing, was really knowledgeable, and had done an excellent
>   job in the past year or two keeping us aware of all the new
>   on-line resources.
>
>         We really will feel his absence here,
>
>                   Paul Rakow
>
>   Jerry Frank wrote:
> >
> > I was stunned when I came home from work to hear this news.  It is my
> sad duty to report that Albert (Al) Muth passed away from pulmonary
> embolism (blood clots) at his home, Sunday July 15.  A brief obituary can
> be found on this site http://www.mccabefuneralhome.com/Publishsite/
> >
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